this is al jazeera america. liesk from new york city i'm tony harris. with a look at today's top story. boston marathon, the first american to win the men's title in more than 30 years. vice president joe biden arrives in ukraine as the white house calls on pro-russian fighters to lay down their arms. the help of u.s. drone strikes and after the deadliest disaster in the history of mt. everest,

sherpas threaten to strike. boston showed its resilience today as tens of thousands of runners took part in the first marathon since last year's bombings. and an american won, the first time in 36 years. more than 35,000 runners registered. national guard members and police watched over the crowds. john terret is live with us. john describe the atmosphere for this year's race. >> well, as you might very well imagine: it changed as the day went on. because i think things were a little bit pe pensive to begin with. a little bit worried about what might happen. confident boston is the safest

city in american today, you might not know. there is a siren, people wonder what that's about, it's understandable. but the sun came up, there was a stiff breeze which was quite cool. perfect marathon weather tony, and an american won the men's race. nobody thought that would happen. we have an emotional marathon day one year after the devastating may marathon of last year. -- marathon of last year. mev kovlofski, credit from eritrea. first american to do this since 1983. and then we have pictures of rita jeptu. rita comes from kenya and she came home in the women's elite

race 2 hours 18 minutes and 50 seconds. three time champion and that time makes her the fastest woman ever to win the boston marathon. the symbolism lost on absolutely no one. >> what about the fun runners, how did they do? >> about 36,000 marathon runners, nine or 10,000 runners, those who couldn't finish they let come back and do it this year. a lot we are told along the route cheering them along the way. i spotted sarah, at boston common, she had a name written on her leg. we went up to her and asked why she did that, she did it so the crowd would cheer her on as she went along the way. she is a teacher.

sarah. >> crossing the finish line i wasn't aware, but now we're doing this for boston, we kind of wanted to make it a memorial for the people and the city more than anything. >> that is sarah talking of names by the way we are told according to the boston globe that the average age of the runners out there was 42 and there was more than 700 michaels and about 300 jennies for what it's worth. >> can you talk a moment about security? i know it would be very tight for had race today. >> it was, yes. it really was. and i think we learned that we had the police commissioner on our air in the several occasions in the last couple of days and live this morning. he made the point clearly. this year, more officers on the beat. more plain clothed policemen,

you never knew who they were, but more cameras keeping an eye on the crowd. he did corc concede, william ev, himself a marathon runner, he has done others of them. this was an awfully long race to police but they did it. we have been a little bit cautious, some people are running. if you and i decided to run the boston marathon we would be coming home this late and possibly later. there are people still completing. >> i'd be among the stragglers for sure. john terret, appreciate it thank you. >> vice president joe biden, visited ukraine, to ease rising tensions in eastern ukraine is

falling pawrt. apart. jacky rowland has the story. >> he's exk expected to reiterae american support for the negotiationegotiation. the deal reached in geneva last week calls on these activates to come out from behind their barricades. a couple of violent incidents have heightened tensions and mistrust between the two sides. pro-russian activists have called on russia to intervene. >> there are more and more calls for russia to save them from this position, we are put in a

difficult place. those who are determined to engage ukraine in a civil war, we are going to curb these policies. >> there are still plenty of people in the east that want to be a part of the united ukraine. some of them held a rally in the town of khartsyzk. a rival demonstration by pro-russian activists. further proof u.s. interference in ukraine, the visit by biden. they denounce the u.s. intervention in ukraine as illegal. they want russian rule. jacky rowland, al jazeera, eastern ukraine.

russian descral ban -- centl bank, could cost russia about $30 billion in lost economic output. president putin signed a law today making it easier nor those who speak russian to become citizens. many living in transnistria, credit are interested in that. as david chater reports the region could become as crimea. >> ethnic background my be complex but the opinions and the language are very much shared. in 111 catofsky street we immediate lydia, an 86-year-old grandmother and the moldovan

care taker. pensioners here gets a special supplement from the kremlin. they call thepotenka. >> translator: of course i miss the soviet times. it was great. we worked, we earned enough money. today it's a mess. >> reporter: the kremlin also provides cut price gas to transnitsria. >> we hope the kremlin will recognize our independence. causing trouble for us. >> in the nearby village of tomolka, made up in equal portions of ethnic russians ukrainians and moll doa moldova.

lessons are held in both russian and moll doe vann. moldovan. >> i joined one barbecue to sound out their opinions. >> ukrainians say wherever russia enters things get worse. but it's quite the opposite. people are living much better here than in moldova. >> president putin's cheefnlgtps achievements are very plan here. he hosted the most successful olympics in history and oh yes, he took back crimea. putin's latest move will also progressive popular here. relaxing requirements to get a russian passport. you just have to be fluent in russian or live in the foremost

soviet union. david chater, transnitzria. >> family members of south korean are ferry capsizing, 87 bodies recovered so far. harry fawcett with more. >> the man in the cross hairs of public anger like no one else from south korea. these images from 2010 show ejin sok at the helm of another ferry. four years later, that's exactly what hundreds of young passengers on the sewol did. staying in place. the captain was first to be rescued. south korean president saved nothing had a scathing personal condemnation of the captain. >> bof all the conduct of the

captain and some crew members is wholly unfathomable. i.t. was an act of murder that cannot and should not are tolerated. >> extending the ferry's operating life by ten years, adding another deck. emergency crews on getting as many bodies back to shore as possible. the first clear morning since the ferry went down and dive teams were hoping to make the most of the improved conditions. among them shin sun goo, prepared for grim difficult task of pulling days-old bodies from the sunken wreck. >> right now they're wearing life jackets so it's very difficult to bring the bodies out of the ship. we need a knife or scissors to cut the jackets and just get the tboidz out.

>> a somber and increasingly familiar process for the families and crews at the dock side. each one brings with it a grief that is at once shared and deeply personal. harry fawcett, al jazeera, jindo, south carolin south kore. >> a defendant in a gang related trial was shot and critically wounded buy u.s. marshal yesterday, when he are swung at the marshal with a pen or a pencil. the justice department is taking another step to help federal prisoners servin serving senten. attorney general eric holder. >> as a society we pay much too high a price whenever our systems fails to deter and

punish crime to keep us safe and ensure that those who have paid their debts have a chance to become productive citizens. our expanded clemency application process will aid in this effort. >> holder says the justice department expects to handle dozens of additional applications. data shows democrats and republicans are raising at about the same clip. how they are spending, that's an entirely different story. daifort david shuster is here with that. >> tony, this is turning out to be one of the biggest gambles. party is trying to replicate the sophisticated tools and techniques of the 2012 obama campaign. the $60 million data effort in this case involves identifying

potential supporters and using social media to help get out the vote. the republican party is also spending millions of dollars on data technology but the gop intends to retain on more tradition campaigning and less on microtargetting. in iowa, national candidates including mitt romney and first television ad has become a sensation. >> i grew up castrating hogs on a iowa farm. when i get to washington, i'll know how to cut pork. >> based on that ernst has been outspent 10 to 1. in texas the republican senate

primary in that state is beginning to get interesting thanks to a far right conservative candidate to this senator. duane stovall, an avid gun enthusiast, is cuferg c coofg wheryaccusing hisopponent. >> i'm a texan. we don't need a beltway turtle telling us how to fight. >> i like turtle soup. >> really? >> i'm duane stovall. be. >> oh my. >> his primary numbers are dropping. one more item as far as today's power politics. a fewer years ago the obama

white house created a website called "we the people." these days the threshold is 100,000 signatures. well somebody recently started a petition that asked president obama to deport troubled pop star justin bieber. that petition has been signed by 270,000 people. the official white house response, no comment. you see in the website fine print there is a caveat that allows the administration to refuse to address certain petitions. clearly, tony, the white house do not want to anger the unbelievers. >> the unbeleibers, right? for those who rely on the sher sherpas to support their

families. ali velshi says it is turning stock market upside down. we'll talk about allow it impacts you. ad guests on all sides of the debate. and a host willing to ask the tough questions and you'll get... the inside story ray suarez hosts inside story next only on al jazeera america

>> the men who guide climbers to the top of the world's tallest mountain are threatening to boycott. nepal's government said today it will consider the demands from the sherpas. roxana saberi is here. roxana. >> many of them rely on business from tourists and climbers to make a living. as anyon nepalese sherpas, wheto boycott the climbing season set to start next month.

more than 340 climbers have permission to climb mt. everest over the next 12 months. 12 are with alpine ascents international. lost many in the avalanche. the company has decided to cancel the expedition. but they are staying put, they have paid $65,000 each. the sherpas don't just set the ropes and lead the way. they haul the gear and cook the food. internot only the people that climb there, there are a lot of other like the lodges or a lot of business that flourish along the trail. >> reporter: a top guide can earn about $5,000 in three months. that kind of money as friday's tragedy shows comes at a great

risk. >> any fal's government says it will -- nepal's government says it will settle up a task force to study the loss. i met a woman whose brother was a sherpa. he earned a really good salary for someone who doesn't have an education. and he was supporting his entire families. >> the life would be difficult without the sherpas. >> definitely. general mills is involved in a controversial plan to strip its customers of their rights. those who engaged with the company online would have to give up their right to sue. the move was announced on social media. now through informal negotiation or arbitration. investors saw a positive day on wall street. volume was relatively light as

traders wait on more earnings reports later this week. the dow jones, the s&p 500 and the nasdaq all made modest gains, the dow up 40 pointers today. providence rhode island, is suing banks and other financial institution over high frequency trading. the city said the firms manipulated, i need to understand this a little bit better. "rea"real money" reem's ali vel. why is this getting so much attention now? >> forget what i ever told you about investing. >> really? >> 401(k) or mutual fund, is involved in high frequency traders. why is this important to you because high speed trading is

turning the u.s. stock market upside down. it sparked investigations as you just read about by reergt reguls and law enforcement, to get a sense of how much the market has undergone a complete transformation because of it, let me go back to december of last year. back on december 5th, 2013, something remarkable happened on that bill. on that day ulta salon and fragrance released its earnings report, mill seconds before ther close. totaling $1.6 million worth of stock, at 4:00 p.m, and not quite one second, ulta stock closed at $118 a share, losing

$3 in less than a second. in that rapid selloff of ulta stock, nanex estimates high frequency traders could have pocketed up to $28 mil, all completely legal. black box algorithm, these algos scour the market for cues including other stocks veforts want to buy or sell, stocks moving higher or lower, changes in the value or earnings report. all in a blink of an eye tens of thousands of times a day often generating profits of just a fraction of a penny per trade. but that all adds up. reergts say high--- rerktsd say

high-frequency trading contributed to a flash-drop, 1,000 points in five minutes briefly erasing $1 trillion in market value only to recover a few minutes later. the real fear is next time the market won't recover from a flash crash and hundreds of billions of dollars will be wiped out in a few minutes. the volume of high frequency trades continues to be so high, 50% of the market. but the profits are actually down from a high of $5 billion in 2009 to just over $1 billion in 2013. part of that stoifn is because so many -- tony is because so many high frequency firms are trying to get into that piece of the pie. in fact the profits are down. >> what are regulators, prosecutors doing about high frequency trading?

>> you all read michael lewis's book "flash boys" and ever since that came out, the u.s. attorney general, has released their strategy against high frequency traders and confirmed that they too are investigating preferential treatment that some traders receive from the exchanges which may put smaller investors at a disadvantage. one thing for certain tony: this debate about high frequency trading and the fairness of our markets have taken center stage. we are going to spend the rest of the week, at the very least, helping our consumers understand this. >> i'll let you g go ali, i'll tell people why. good night.

starting tonight, are you ready for this? "real money" goes to a full hour monday through friday, check it out, 7:00 eastern, each night. hundreds killed in south sudan startinged because of their ethnicitethnicity a teenage boya five and a half hour flight hidden in a wheel well. those speeds, you're toast! >> billions of dollars at stake, is our economy insecurity now at the mercy of these machines? >> humans aren't able to receive information in that timeframe. >> we're looking at the risks, rewards, and dangers of high frequency trading >> there are no rules or regulations >> all this week on the new expanded real money with ali velshi helping you balance your finances and your life. now an hour, starting at 7 eastern / 4 pacific only on al jazeera america

>> the death toll could be much higher than anyone known. >> posing as a buyer... >> ...people ready then... >> mr. president >> who should answer for those people primetime news. >> welcome to al jazeera america. >> stories that impact the world, affect the nation and touch your life. >> i'm back. i'm not going anywhere this time. >> only on al jazeera america. >> targeted because of they're ethnicity targeted attacks in the city of bentu. targeting people hiding in hospitals churches and

modifications. monica lavel, has the story, we want to warn you some of these images are disturbing. >> as we were coming into land we could see the dead bodies on the road from the air and streams of people making their way from the town of bentu to the u.n. base in the small sister town of racona. they were carrying building materials on their heads, apparently determined to set up new places for he themselves, just outside those gates there was a pile of dead, difficult to count but in the tens, and it's certainly been there for a long time. they were bloated, decomposing just left out in the sun. when we went into the mosque we found just eight corpses inside but according to the human rights investigators, many, many more were massacred inside there last week, they believe 200 of

the 800 sheltering there for protection. by the time we arrived, most of them had been removed. >> allison mcgiffen, good to talk to you. now we were aware of what happened last thursday i believe in, but we're just learning more -- in bor, but we're just learning what happened in bentu, north of the country, as anna was talking about, up to 200 killed in a mosque, bodies piled in the streets. what are you hearing about what is talking about some of the cities of south sudan, i'm talking about bentu or malaka. >> thanks very much for having me. >> pleasure. >> at this point we still have 60 to 70,000 people across south sudan that are harbored inside u.n. bases for protection. i think what we need to remember

is this is primary not an ethnic conflict, it really is a conflict for political power and for resources. it is these actors riek machar and salva kiir are using ethnic tensions in order for people to commit are violence against civilians. that is the exact things we see escalate in place he like bentu and bor. >> these attacks are being blamed on rebels. are these rebels that still support riek machar, are they groups that are not aligned to the president salva kiir but work at his bidding? who are the rebels? who are we talking about here? because it seems as though there are atrocities on both sides of this. >> that's exactly right. right now we have the sudan

people's liberation army which is essentially the army of sudan that serves under salva kiir and then we have the spla in opposition and those are both individuals and armed parts of the former peoples liberation army of south sudan who have split off and are working under the command of riek machar. it is an umbrella group that contains a number of factions that of south sudan that have grouped together. >> has this political standoff has spilling out in horrible ways in these big cities of south sudan, have we gotten to a place now where the political standoff in the country has turned into an out and out tribal ethnic war in south sudan? are we there yet? >> there is definitely the use of these tensions that are

causing what are war crimes and crimes against humanity essentially. the violence is widespread and systematic. i don't want to characterize it that way, the economic aspects are really the root causes of these conflicts which are primarily needing to be addressed but we need wide spread reconciliation and peace building and mediation at the local level, especially with the folks who see a lot of these attacks as ethnic because they are partially ethnic-motivated. >> right. i want to get to how deep this goes. what is your reaction that a local radio station is broadcasting hate messages, encouraging people to attack other people over the public airways. >> this is essentially a nightmare scenario. one the international community has been working against since

the rwandan genocide in the 1980s. also with u.s. responses itself have been around, trying to prevent this use of hate-speech. it is definitely a warning sign that things are likely the escalate and get even worse and why the peace keeping operations and the u.n. and the international community need to be prepared for dealing with this protection crisis for months if not years to come. we need to get reenforcements in there right now, not only to just protect people but also to ensure that humanitarian assistance can reach them. >> four months ago there was a peace treaty in place and many were talking about development in south sudan. today there are five, six, 7 million facing hunger. there is the planting season, what kind of issue are we looking at if the planting season is a bust and people

can't do their work? >> the rainy season has started and will only intensify in the next few months. initially, there is not a question of whether we get outbreaks of cholera but when. we need better water sources and latrines, we are going to have the same amount if not more harboring and of course as you mentioned we're going to be facing a huge food shortage in south sudan. and some are already calling for attention to this because there's likely to be a famine. >> allison appreciate your son. from the stimson center. thank you. killed in a series of drone strikes in yemen, the strikes yesterday and today targeted a major al qaeda base in the southern mountains. al qaeda in the arabian

peninsula. libby casey joins us. >> offroad vehicle was hit by a missile launched by a drone late sunday night. this comes just a week after video surfaced of a training camp in yemen where a prominent al qaeda on the are arabian peninsula leader was talking about how they would fight western crusaders everywhere. this video proved to be embarrassing, this video was shot in broad daylight with a lot of confidence and olot of bravado. these attacks on the training ground happened in the same region of the country. now in terms of the u.s. role, here is how white house

spokesman jay carney responded to a question about american involvement. >> first of all i can't speak to specific operations as you know. we have a strong collaborative relationship with the yemeni government, we support the yemeni government's efforts to tackle terrorism within their own borders and beyond that for details of these reported incidents i would refer you to the yemeni government. again without speaking of specific operations i can tell you in may 2013 president obama spoke at length of the policy and rationale how the united states takes direct action against al qaeda and its associated forces outside of areas of active hostilities including drone strikes. and as the president made clear we take extraordinary care to make sure our counterterrorism actions are in accordance to

international laws. >> he said drone use is heavily constrained and only done when there is consultation with partners, also respect for sovereignty, tony. >> so libby, today a federal appeals court weighed in on what the obama administration has to disclose about drone strikes. tell me how this all factors in. >> the federal appeals cord is he the obama administration has to justify the attacks of americans overseas. anra al laki was a,. >> under the obama administration the new america foundation says they actually had the most civilian casualties ever last year, and that has

created a lot of conflict in yemen both in the parliament and the president there. the drone strikes are perhaps lesser of two evils because there's less casualty and death of civilians and others than more traditional war planes would have. the yemeni government trying to walk a fine line there. >> libby casey, thank you. in britain more than 100 firefighters battled an industrial fire. residents said they heard a series of blasts early this morning when a fire broke out at a packaging plant. it spread to a chemical are whrowwarehouse. wrnchts paying off a world war ii debt, the chinese ministry

says it is being held, reparations during an agreement made decades ago. relations have been strained. since japan's prients visite jar visited a shrine. ban ki-moon feels the are key demand for the opposition, zena hader has our report. >> this is what it is like in rebel areas in syria. it is not clear how an election can be held here. but in government controlled neighborhoods a campaign to reelect syrian president bashar al-assad is underway. he hasn't officially nominated himself. but he will he says if the people want it.

there are people that don't want saud as their leader. in fact the war was a consequence of the uprising against his rule. >> who should i vote for, the man who killed many people? >> even though the millions of syrian who have left their country or internally displaced want to cast their ballot, the the government raises questions on the credibility of the electoral process. this time the government says the vote will be different. over the past decades the government could elect to support or not. now parliament mass approved of laws for candidates to run for the post. one of the conditions is they must have lived in syria for the past ten years. that means that most of assad's

opponents have been secluded from the race. >> the mistake of the opposition was that they had no executive body like government that is actually providing a service for the syrian people. areas where he actually controls some ministries of their functioning. and that has been also his advantage. >> reporter: he may remain in power but the opposition and its allies won't accept the election as legitimate or free and fair. whatever happens, one thing is certain: the poll won't reunite the country or stop the war. zena hoda. al jazeera. >> a teenager on a five and a half hour flight.

stow away. maria innes ferre the. >> fbi says he survived frigid temperatures and a lack of oxygen but was not hurt. he was caught trying to slip away once the plane landed in maui. the teen has been released to child protective services and will not be charged with a crime. in kentucky, a prison authority was charged after an inmate starved himself to death. investigations shows personnel failed to give him medications that may have prevented suicidal thoughts. two prison staffers may also be fired. in seattle, washington the boy scouts want to shut down a local troop because of a gay scout

master. the boy scouts send a letter to the local meft methodist church. about 30,000 crowded onto the white house lawn for the annual easter egg hunt. dozens of characters from books and games and movie and the theme this year, hop into healthy swing into shade. among the attractions, story book reading and crafort an crae tradition started in 1888, where president rutherford b. haze encouraged can children. >> they are massive right?

>> i didn't go to theirs. >> to the best of our knowledge, real eggs, not plastic things. i'm gettin getting confirmationm i so silly today? coming up on al jazeera america undocumented immigrants who don't know they can go to an emergency room. illegal back time, in pakistan, that's next. >> the death toll could be much higher than anyone known. >> posing as a buyer... >> ...people ready then... >> mr. president >> who should answer for those

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>> your honor documented immigrants are eligible for emergency care under medicaid. but many either don't know it or are afraid if they go to the hospital, they will be deported.

natasha guinane, how are they getting the word to the hospitals about this rule? >> it is a very difficult problem. the law students we have interviewed say they believe the they have uncovered a knowledge gap that has national implications. they rush to save a man's life. in the last 14 years ariel be gonzalez has picked produce in american fields. he is suffering from kidney failure. he was hesitant to seek medical treatment. >> cry for two, three days. >> gonzalez didn't know that even as an undocumented immigrant he was eligible for emergency care through medicaid. he was treated for renal failure and spent a week in the hospital. but when he was released the

real battle to survive began. gonzalez needed dialysis two times a week but since he had no insurance, no outpatient ftc facility would treat him. he had to fly home to mexico for care. it's called repatriation. with drug violence in his home town it would certainly be a death sentence. that's when a team of law students with the university of miami health rights clinic heard about the case and stepped in. the director of the health rights clinic knew that this 2010 policy allows undocumented immigrants like gonzalez to get dialysis treatment for up to 12 months at a time but the students say they ran into a wall of bureaucracy. >> all of the actors pretty much

didn't understand fully what was going on. >> it took almost three weeks of working around the clock according to the students to finally get gonzalez approved for dialysis at an outpatient clinic. >> we think that people may be dying every day as a result of lack of understanding of availability of care. i have every reason to believe that there are probably many states where this is a very big problem. >> reporter: we asked a spokes woman for florida department of children and families which determines medicaid eligibility about these concerns. she said, our medical providers at a local level are aware of this policy. for example in miami dade county department of children and families has workers at every main hospital and health department clinic. throughout the county to help patients and hospitals with the application process. gonzalez calls the law students his guardian angels.

receiving calls from across florida asking for help with other patients. now gonzalez might indirectly end up being someone else's guardian angel. gonzalez is no longer work. he needs a kidney transplant but like any undocumented credit immigrant here in the u.s. he can't get one unless he can pay for it, tony. >> pakistan has not stopped local bookies from developing a thriving local industry. even the police are getting in on the action. >> it's pakistan's favorite pastime. and whenever there's a major cricket max -- match, thousands watch if they can. even though it's illegal,

thousands place bets in hope the are local team would win. >> i was hoping pakistan would do well, but thank goodness, i won't lose the $50 bet i played. >> reporter: big sporting events like this they rake in millions of dollars in illicit proceeds. al jazeera was given access to these book makers outside the hotel room. we've hidden their identities, and once the match is over, they will pack up and believe are le. 30 years later the laws were revised when parliament passed the prevention of gambling act. the penalties are $10 fine and up to one year of prison. given the relatively lax

punishment, illegal betting thrives. the police have been evolved in or accused of being involved in these gambling dense. >> the conestablishes are badly paid and find it difficult to make ends neat. some get involved in illegal activities like this, not all but some and when we learn of it, we deal with them harshly. >> clearly, it's not enough top prevent illegal book makers like this, from making big profits. al jazeera, karachi. >> mt. everest has become a tourist attraction. the deadly avalanche there has people wondering: should that change? >> borderland long held beliefs... >> im really pissed off at the mexican government...

>> give way to compassion... >> if you feel tired, would you turn around and come back? >> our teams find out first hand how treacherous the migrants journey can be. >> we make them take a trip of death >> it is heartbreaking when you see the families on top of the rail car borderland continues only on al jazeera america

>> you know, the deadly avalanche at everest has many

commenting about the safety of sherpa guides. maria innes ferre is back with the details. >> tensing is a sherpa who has been posting images of himself. a puja before an expedition. i and my team members have officially given up on everest expeditions this season, in respect for our friends and colleagues who lost their lives.

adrian ballinger is a founder of an expedition company. he says his sherpa team is dedicated to continuing their explorations. he said we should never forget or hide the real cost of our choosing to climb. all this has generated a debate whether these expedition expedition he should be don -- s should be done at all. another tweet, stop climbing everest, the mountain clearly doesn't want you there. shouldn't tubing about everest, when boyfriend is climbing it soon. it is a moment. >> maria, appreciate it, thank you. alcohol in the powder form. the u.s. alcohol and tobacco tax bureau, had you heard of it

before? has approved palcohol. all you do is add water and stir, it goes on sale this fall. that's it for this hour. inside story is next on al jazeera america. >> both its biggest fans and owe knowns said nafta would bring big changes. now who is right about nafta, that's next on "inside story"